ocean the melting of the ice cap ands that kind of thing and the affect it's beginning to have on our environment? >> the question now is really not whether each weather event is caused by global warming but the climates have warmed and the weather will form anyway but all forming in a much wetter climate. and the sea level is rising. especially in our region from north carolina to massachusetts. sea level rises accelerating at three times the rest of the green. gulf stream changes and so on. so the storm surge will get worse with time. >> when you mention global warming or climate change particularly here in the united states and particularly here in washington, those terms have become politicized and people debate about is it caused by humans? should we be funding research into this. all that kind of thing. but what you just said, those are facts. the water is warming, the sea level is rising. >> yes. >> and so these weather events that would form anyway, how does that impae weather events? for example, could that contribute to a storm like sandy developing the way it developed? >> yes. from th